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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2301077" data-attributes="member: 2205">Wow, that seems really low.  I have an ebook/rtf copy of The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs, and it's got over 47,000 words and 69 pages in a word processor, which comes to just over 685 words per page on average.  I'm guessing that formatting in an actual book fits more words on a page than a word processor, but I could be wrong.  It does depend on the layout, font size, book size, no doubt.Still, I'm trying to guess what a novel is in words.  It seems reasonable, because The Face in the Frost is barely more than a novella at best, that an average novel of 300-350 or so pages is 200,000-300,000 words, or slightly more.A Robert Jordan piece of the Wheel of Time has got to be 750,000 words or so, if that's correct.  They clock in at over 900 pages.</blockquote>